Trump warns of widespread veto use after U.S. midterms

[Financial News]  U.S. President Donald Trump said he would counter with a powerful veto if Democrats win majorities in both the House and Senate in the U.S. midterm elections scheduled for the 3rd (local time).
In an interview on journalist Miranda Devine’s podcast Pod Force One on the 1st, President Trump declared, “If the Democrats win, I’ll be ‘Mr. Veto.’ I won’t let them ruin the country.”
However, President Trump argued that even if the opposition controlled Congress, the government would not come to a complete standstill. “If they send me bills, I’ll veto them. After they spend months having their bills rejected and wasting time, they’ll eventually come to us and try to reach an agreement,” he said, adding, “This has happened before, and I think negotiations will eventually take place this time, too.”
Election forecasters currently see Democrats as likely to retake the House majority. The battle for control of the Senate is also fiercely competitive. Republicans face close races in nine seats they currently hold, compared with just three for Democrats, leaving Republicans at a relative disadvantage.
The political news outlet Cook Political Report rated Senate races in Alaska, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio and Texas—all traditionally Republican strongholds—as toss-ups, with the odds at 50-50. Since 1938, the party holding the White House has failed to lose House seats in a midterm election only twice, and Republicans currently hold a very narrow majority in the House.
If Democrats retake either the House or the Senate, they have signaled plans for sweeping hearings and investigations targeting the Trump administration and people associated with it, raising concerns that the administration’s ability to govern could be weakened. In response, President Trump criticized the Democrats, saying, “They want to repeal the Second Amendment (the right to bear arms) and pursue transgender policies for everyone,” while expressing confidence that Republicans would win.
President Trump also voiced agreement with Elon Musk’s recent warning that “the country could be destroyed forever” if Democrats win this election. He claimed that if Democrats took power, they would make the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., states, increase the number of Supreme Court justices and abolish the Senate filibuster, thereby neutralizing the Republicans’ ability to check them.
In the interview, President Trump noted that Democrats would call him a “lame duck” over the next two years and candidly said he would like to run again if given the chance.
Referring to the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which limits presidents to two terms, he acknowledged, “If I were eligible, I’d like to run again. Recent polls have also shown me far ahead of all the candidates, but the constitutional provision is very strict.”
“We still have at least two years left in our term. That’s a long time, and we can accomplish a lot during that period,” he said, expressing confidence in his ability to govern for the remainder of his term.

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